1 / 12

Biochemistry

Biochemistry. Lecture 2. Bioenergetics. “The study of energy transductions in living cells” Biological processes obey the laws of thermodynamics, i.e.: Energy isn’t created or destroyed Entropy of the system always increases. Cell. Products. Reactants. +. 6. 6. +. 6. Thermodynamics.

yardan
Download Presentation

Biochemistry

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Biochemistry Lecture 2

  2. Bioenergetics • “The study of energy transductions in living cells” • Biological processes obey the laws of thermodynamics, i.e.: • Energy isn’t created or destroyed • Entropy of the system always increases Cell Products Reactants

  3. + 6 6 + 6 Thermodynamics

  4. Structural differences between products and reactants Concentration differences between products and reactants At equilibrium, ΔG = 0 and Q becomes Keq or Free Energy in Bioenergetics

  5. Organic Chemistry, revisited

  6. Nucleophilic Bond Formation

  7. Phosphate and ATP

  8. ATP Hydrolysis

  9. Oxidation and Reduction

  10. Electron Carriers

More Related